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A List Of Original Psychology Dissertation Topics To Explore

Graduate students working towards their psychology master’s degrees often have a hard time finding unique and interesting dissertation topics. This happens even when there are thousands of research articles providing content for dozens of sub-sections and areas of study within psychology. We’ve provided this list of fifteen really good, original psychology topics for you to consider and explore:

Analyze prior research which suggests that schizophrenia is a multi-dimensional mental syndrome and the clues this research provides towards new methods of treatment.

Analyze different traits commonly associated with introversion and extroversion and whether they can be used to predict suicidal tendencies in individuals.

Compare and contrast learning mechanisms and methods during cognitive development specifically in addressing learning difficulties.

Analyze the effectiveness of identifying personality traits in children and young teens and their effectiveness in providing personality profiles in adults.

Provide an analysis of how a mixture of attention, expectations and emotional states affect ones perception of pain.

Discuss different personality inventories and how they rank in order of effectiveness towards assessment of personalities.

Provide a research study on the effectiveness or ineffectiveness of using the DSM-IV as a preliminary tool for diagnosing abnormal psychological disorders or symptoms.

Discuss how consciousness is understood and explained as a complex output of a number of processes and how it affects the way people perceive or process information.

Analyze the relationship between impaired emotion, anxiety and social cognition disorders and the methods being used to treat each disorder.

Discuss the extent in which specific objective methods of measuring information or data affect the way psychologists approach our understanding of human consciousness.

Discuss the role of facial stimuli in the development of human communication from infancy to adulthood, and compare how the most effective stimuli can be leveraged to treat early development problems.

Discuss the validity of the big five inventories determining personality in different age groups and how effective they have been in diagnosing personality disorders.